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Bolesławiec pottery (English: BOLE-swavietz, Polish: [bɔlɛ'swav j ɛt͡s]), also referred to as Polish pottery, [1] is the collective term for fine pottery and stoneware produced in the town of Bolesławiec, in south-western Poland. The ceramics are characterized by an indigo blue polka dot pattern on a white background or vice versa.
A wycinanka pattern from Lublin, 1915. Vytynanky (Витина́нки) in Ukraine or Wycinanki ([vɨt͡ɕiˈnaŋkʲi]) in Poland or Vycinanki (Выцінанкі) in Belarus, is a Slavic version of the art form of papercutting, popular in Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine.
The origin of the term is unclear, it is possibly related to old-Polish verbs parznąć and parznić meaning to make some object filthy. [3] Initially the name also applied to various other objects popular in everyday life of the Goral people, including wooden forms used in cheese production and heart-shaped motifs used in wood carving . [ 4 ] .
Polish playing cards (Polish: Karty polskie) have been manufactured since the 15th century and include both French-and German-suited cards. Polish playing cards may also refer more narrowly to the Polish pattern : traditional packs of 36 German-suited playing cards produced in Poland to local designs.
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Plate from the Harewood House botanical dessert service, probably 1830s-1840s. Coalport, Shropshire, England was a centre of porcelain and pottery production between about 1795 ("inaccurately" claimed as 1750 by the company) [1] and 1926, with the Coalport porcelain brand continuing to be used up to the present.
The onion pattern was designed as a white ware decorated with cobalt blue underglaze pattern. Sometimes dishes have gold leaf accents on them. Some rare dishes have a green, red, pink, or black pattern instead of the cobalt blue. A very rare type is called red bud because there are red accents on the blue-and-white dishes. [1]
Certosina patterns around the larger carved bone panels in a casket by the Embriachi workshop Certosina is a decorative art technique of inlaying used widely in the Italian Renaissance period. Similar to marquetry , it uses small pieces of wood, bone, ivory, metal, or mother-of-pearl to create inlaid geometric patterns on a wood base. [ 1 ]